With less than a week until the start of the new season in the Spanish Primera Liga, FC Barcelona have played their last game of a difficult pre-season which has done little to convince the doubters that the club has successfully dealt with the problems which were apparent in the closing stages of the last campaign.

Chelsea and Manchester City have been told they will have to make Radamel Falcao the highest paid player in the country, at 250,000 Pounds a week, if they want to sign the striker from Atletico Madrid this summer.

The chance for revenge or to rub salt further into the wounds comes around quickly sometimes in football, at least that is what the players for Real Madrid and FC Barcelona must be thinking at the moment.